Maikel Nabil Sanad

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The Middle East's political shifts changed conditions for journalists dramatically. The emerging trends favor free expression, but are filled with ambiguity and depend on the political configurations to emerge after the revolutionary dust has settled. By Mohamed Abdel Dayem

New York, December 14, 2011-- The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the sentencing of Egyptian
blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad by a military court to two years in prison and a
fine for insulting the military and calls for his immediate, unconditional
release. Sanad, initially arrested
in March was sentenced
in April by a military court to three years in prison.

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Your Excellency Prime Minister El Ganzory: The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to bring to your attention the mounting press freedom violations in Egypt. Between November 19 and 24, we documented at least 35 cases of journalists who were attacked in Cairo and Alexandria when protesters clashed with the military and police. We are attaching the list here and ask specifically for you to note the deteriorating state of press freedom in your country.

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New York, August 31, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Egypt's
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to immediately release journalist Maikel Nabil Sanad, who was tried in
military court for "insulting the military" and is now serving a three-year
sentence in prison. Sanad began a hunger strike in prison on August 22 and was
transferred to solitary confinement two days later.

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New York,
April 11, 2011--Continuing a weeks-long pattern of seizing journalists covering
the Libyan conflict, the government of Muammar Qaddafi is detaining two more
television journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. And in
Egypt, in a serious setback for press freedom under the transitional government,
a court has sentenced a blogger to a three-year prison term for "insulting the
military."

New York, April 8, 2011--The Committee to
Protect Journalists is concerned about the fate of American freelance
journalist Matthew VanDyke, who has been missing in Libya since mid-March,
according to his family and news reports. He is among 15reporters either missing
or in government custody in Libya.